Direct link to OS X Yosemite download

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Try using our direct link to OS X Yosemite in Apple’s Mac App Store below.

OS X Yosemite is available as a free upgrade today from the Mac App Store. Yosemite supports all Macs introduced in 2009 or later, and some models introduced in 2007 and 2008, specifically:

• iMac (Mid-2007 or newer)
• MacBook (13-inch, late 2008 aluminum, early 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (15-inch, mid/late 2007 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (17-inch, late 2007 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

Continuity features require iOS 8.1, which is available as a free upgrade starting October 20.

The direct link to OS X Yosemite in Apple’s Mac App Store is here.

39 Comments

  1. I think I’ll wait until you feisty early adapters get your hands on it. I’ve been burned by first-day software too many times in the past to take the risk. Can’t wait to hear the reviews — especially when it comes to older machines (I’ve got a 2009 MacBookPro and a 2011 iMac).

    1. I’m one of those feisty early adopters. So far, the only problem I’ve encountered is with the umlaut. For some reason I cannot make one nor can I make and accent over a letter such as for French or Spanish, backwards or forwards. I can make åø and other symbols with option just fine. This is sort of annoying when one is trying to pick up German and has known how to make alternate characters since his first Mac with OS 7.

        1. I keep getting the same error message @carrioneater : NSInternalInconsistencyException
          Is that a timeout issue and I should keep trying or a true system error that needs attention?? So frustrating as the progress bar on the download is almost full when this message pops up and fails everytime… any input would be appreciated

  2. Got it and enjoying it so far. One thing I don’t like is the Tool/Tab bar in Safari – the shade of grey is too light, it makes it look like how it would’ve in Mavericks if it was in the background. I keep clicking the top bar to try to ‘bring it to the forefront’, but it’s already there. Suppose that’s just years of visual memory that I’ll have to try to forget. Anyone else finding this, or is it just me?!

  3. Yippee! My mid 2007 iMac can use Yosemite, I will be very excited to see how slow it will be, would it be as slow as iPhone 4S with iOS 8, exciting times, every update adds more goo in the gears.

      1. Thanks. That’s exactly why I came to this article. I figured someone would post a link for that. I haven’t done a clean install on my MacBook Pro since Lion. I figure it’s about time to clean out the cruft.

  4. Ugh. Have you seen the new iTunes logo yet? I just threw up in my mouth a little. This is the end of the elegance. I don’t even want to put Yosemite on my computer. Thought I was disappointed by iOS 7.

  5. From App Store, Security Updated, permissions repaired, then DLed Yosemite, installed, then updated iPhoto, Aperture and printer software.

    Everything works so far. Seems faster in Safari and in the finder, Word 2013 had an update waiting for me. Love the new typeface; the icons are going to take some getting used to. Trash is only one that bothers me.

    Forget the naysayers, my Mac has run faster and with less fan use after every update since I got it. So good work SW engineers!
    MB Air, late 2012.

  6. Installing all the other updates after Yosemite finished was rather puzzling. For example, iMovie started with its progress bar appearing with 75% complete, then within 2 minutes the time remaining (in text form) danced all over the place, from 1 hr 6 minutes to 1 minute and everything in between, up & down. Within 2 minutes it was done. I’ve written progress bar software before and I realize the challenges, but this was crazy. Something is wrong with their method. (And if this is all I find puzzling, I’m gonna be a happy camper.)

    Oh, and icon labels and the dock is so much more readable. I can even see the dot under the dock icons now!

  7. Is anyone having issues with Safari and sharing a link? I see no service. Unable to send (email) a link from there up where task bar is. Would appreciate feedback please.

    Safari otherwise is so fast on my MacBook Pro seems like I have a new machine!

    1. No issues here. Link works fine. Definitely faster.
      Have spent about an hour on Safari, testing out the app via Macworld’s excellent article, “OS X Yosemite: Get to know the new, slimmed down Safari.”*

      Not particularly upset at the least with the changes. Learned a long time ago to not become a creature of habit. Of course it took over 20 years of marriage, that the faster I changed my habits the less of a creature I was. At least I got my wife to think so.

      * http://www.macworld.com/article/2450066/hands-on-with-os-x-yosemite-safari-slims-down.html

  8. Honestly, I think I’ll keep enjoying Mavericks for a few more months. OS X’s are at its best right when it retires – very update to date, fully patched, with millions of users having spent over a year testing every part of it.

    You kids have fun being first ones on Yosemite. Please report anything that goes wrong, so it can be fixed before my arrival.

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